Today is the Independence Day of USA. It is also a rare nice sunny day for amsterdam . However, it seems that “Google+” hit the headline in every media. One of my colleague asked if someone had the “Google+” invitation, and it is a shame that none of us has received the confirm letter from Google. We are all eager to join this “New” social media network.

What is Google+? Generally speaking, it is a social media network, and in fact this social media network is really closed to “Facebook“, which we are all familiar with. Since the moment when Google+ was born, it is being widely compared with Facebook. For me, it is a bit weird to use Google to interact with friends, since it is already powerful enough for people to obtain all kinds of information as the most popular search engine. Besides, Facebook is involving a larger population, and becoming more and more integrated, who really wants to quit Facebook?

But this is not the first time for Google to develop its social media network site. Unfortunately, most social media productions by Google before were not successful. Here is a clear picture of the history of Google’s social media:

As far as I have discovered, Google’s social media network has achieved some success to some extend in specific countries. Like the site Orkut, until the year of 2011, nearly 85% of Orkut users are from Brazil and India. Friendster, which is considered as the “grandpa” of social media network is one of the most popular sites in Asian countries.

From this picture, we can see that Google has tried different field to launch social media sites, but they have never been really globally grown. Though Google Buzz is a comparably more international and integrated social media site lately, it still made Google face an embarrassed situation. Apparently, Facebook is more convenient and welcomed by citizens.

However, Social Media itself is a developing industry with the development of technology and internet. Someday, there will be something replace Facebook. and the popularity of Facebook actually meet people’s demand in time. Thus, as the most smart search engine (which millions of people even cannot live without), Google reckons it is their time to do a big change on social media network, in order to crash Facebook and build a better social media network, Google+ was born.

Basically Google+ is similar as Facebook, as a recent launched it not only learns a lot of advantages from Facebook but also learns a lot of lessons from its unsuccessful sites before. One of the alleged best features of Google + is the circles. It makes it more easier that friends are in different groups and circle, so your nightclubbing pictures won’t be seen by your boss if you share this in another circle.

Some people say that Google+ concerns much more on copyright things while Facebook is the co-owner of anything that users publish. But I don’t think this really makes sense, since in my past articles it is already concluded that the real copyrights don’t really exist.

Personally, I am really happy using Facebook right now.And I do believe that Facebook could keep improve itself and get better. Internet is a world of information without boundaries , Google plays an extremely role in this world without any doubt.Google already has a lot of good productions for us to use, like the Google Chrome, Google Map etc.

I always would like to say that I cannot live without Google , however, when Google+ came out, I am really begin to worry that I will become a slave of Google, and the internet life won’t be fun at all.Plus, it is really troublesome for most of netizens to leave their current social media sites and start all connections again.

It has already been one week since I sent my email to Google+ to ask for an invitation. And now I still haven’t heard anything from them. This time Google+ is really careful to pick first users and check feedbacks to win social media networking market. But neither of them could occupied the whole world, because they both will miss one of the biggest internet market －－China. Since Google search engine is kicked out from the mainland, and the Google+ won’t be accepted either. This is very hilarious.What the hell.